When its your turn to listen, you will have to stop talking so that you can hear.
Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. Learn to recognize when it is your turn to listen.
Job 38:1-3, “Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Now prepare yourself like a man, I will question you and you shall answer Me.”
Psalm 119:11, “Your Word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.”
Sometimes the Lord has to show us how little we know before we realize how little we have learned. One of the ways He does this is by teaching us to recognize when it is our turn to listen. Listening leads to learning.
Job lost his family and everything else that he had. He and his three friends were talking among themselves about why this misfortune happened to him. Talking didn’t give them the answers they sought.
But as they talked, God was listening to them and waiting for His turn to talk. If the Lord does not speak before He listens, perhaps we ought to do the same thing. Psalm 119-11 encourages listening. When we store the Word of God into our lives, the Word speaks to us so that we learn to listen before we speak.
When I consider the world today, too many of us want to talk but few of us want to listen. We have much to say but we speak with little knowledge. We reject great advice and counsel because we prefer to give advice and counsel.
God finally questioned Job, not about what happened to him, but about what Job and his friends were saying. Job didn’t miss hearing God’s voice because he knew it was his turn to listen. You will not recognize when it is your turn to listen when you keep your mouth open.
We cannot solve many of the problems we face because we do not learn to listen. The Lord will ask you to listen so that you know more. He wants you to listen so that what you speak comes from a place of knowledge and not of nonsense.
Where were you before you were you? What were you doing before you did anything at all? Where does the wind go when it stops blowing? What does the wind look like? Can you describe how it looks? If you want answers you must learn to listen for knowledge.
When you miss your turn to listen you miss your turn to grow. I hate that I didn’t listen more to my parents and to the adults around me. I thought that I knew as much or more than they did. But I was wrong. I thought they were old fashioned and old thinking.
The fact that our parents had to use an encyclopedia to research what they didn’t know didn’t make them unknowledgeable. It made them smart. Our parents hid the Word of God in their hearts, so they learned to listen. The Word speaks to us about us. If we don’t listen, we can’t hear.
Today we have google to do our research for us. This doesn’t make us smart. It makes us lazy and unknowledgeable. We hide our own words in our hearts so we can speak to others about others.
The Lord will listen to you. He will wait for His turn to speak in your life. You will know it is your turn to listen when all you hear is yourself speaking. When it is your turn to listen, stop talking and wait to hear. Then you will learn to grow from what you hear. That will give you something special you can talk about that.
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